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Small Track ID?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:10 pm
by Rumpled
OK,
cougarmagic and others.
Here are some small tracks; what are they?
Skunk, raccoon, squirrel, possum, other?
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:09 pm
by cougarmagic
Come on "others" - don't make me the brown nosey kid always raising her hand first in class!
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:32 pm
by HikeUp
This 'other' says...Emu!
This is why you are asked first Magic.
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:43 pm
by Mike P
OK, CM, I vote for gray fox.
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:59 am
by Taco
My guess is fox. Maybe skunk, though I don't know how many of them there are in the SG's.
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:26 am
by Rumpled
The track is not in the SG's it's in the Santa Ana foothills.
I just posted here because of CM and I don't know of any tracking forums.
I know it's not canine or feline. I think too small for raccoon; but I think the way it looks like a hand makes it so. Might be skunk. There are tons of ground squirrels in this area.
OK, the CM kid in the front row with the arm thrust in the air can answer now that no other kid can. Besides, that arm has got to be getting tired.
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:43 am
by cougarmagic
Ooh! Ooh! I know!
http://www.coestatepark.com/beechey_ground_squirrel.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=FVoDRs ... ks&f=false
It's the Beechey ground squirrel.
The photo is good because it shows the tracks of all four feet - and the pattern tells more than the shape of any one foot.
The far left print and the one next to your finger are the hind feet. They land in front of the front feet when the animal is moving in its normal "gallop" mode.
I had to look it up. All the little rodent tracks look really similar.
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:55 am
by Taco
Do they taste good?
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:06 am
by cougarmagic
Sure, if you like plague. (both Bubonic and Pneumonic)
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:45 pm
by Rumpled
I was afraid of squirrel; I wanted to find something a bit more "exotic".
There are hundreds of these litle buggers around our animal pens - they love to steal food.
Occassionally they drown in water buckets.
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:04 pm
by gregp909
Once they are drowned in the water buckets I am guessing that would wash off the "plague" and then they be good eatin' Right?!?
Personally, I was hoping Emu was the right answer.
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:31 pm
by Taco
cougarmagic wrote:
Sure, if you like plague. (both Bubonic and Pneumonic)
SWEET!
Re: Small Track ID?
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:03 pm
by Rumpled
gregp909 wrote:Once they are drowned in the water buckets I am guessing that would wash off the "plague" and then they be good eatin' Right?!?
Personally, I was hoping Emu was the right answer.
Buckets get rinsed and you'd have to ask the vultures about the taste.
Couldn't be emu, birds have like three toes (oh, and their tracks would be 100's of times bigger)